Comments on: It's just a bunch of squares

It's just a bunch of squares

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 03:00:43 -0800

I hope you find these abstract mosaics as stimulating as I do. But are they NSFW?

By: joedan

joedan — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:02:24 -0800

yes. yes they are.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:05:40 -0800

I'm glad we've cleared that one up then.

By: derbs

derbs — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:06:40 -0800

They're great. Funny though, the thumbnails are NSFW, yet the fullsize ones are. Guess it depends how far from the screen you're standing, though...

By: hama7

hama7 — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:12:01 -0800

Pornographic pixels: proliferate!

By: derbs

derbs — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:14:57 -0800

Appears that hardcore pornography seems to be the 'in' thing in contemporary art at the moment. See also Turner Prize nominee Fiona Banner's 'Arsewoman' piece. http://www.fionabanner.com/present/theworks/arsewoman.htm

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:18:00 -0800

Yes. If pixellated porn is art, and synopsis of porn is art, then why isn't porn art? What is art? Actually, forget I asked that.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:18:06 -0800

Thanks, Pretty_Generic! Great start to a day, that was.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:21:19 -0800

Hey, Miguel! Shut up! heh

By: hama7

hama7 — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:25:39 -0800

Good call, derbs, but the problem with the Turner is that everything is written cheesy "Penthouse forum" porn-flick style, whereas these painted particulars are putting out in a penetratingly pointed pragmatic presentation.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:27:44 -0800

Remind me, hama7, who is Sesame Street brought to me by today?

By: hama7

hama7 — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 05:05:36 -0800

who is Sesame Street brought to me by today? Odd....placement...of...prepositions...can't.... Sesame street has been brought to you by the pusillanimous penchant for pixel perverted porn.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 05:23:36 -0800

I like funkin with da syzzzyntax.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 05:24:43 -0800

OMG. $410 for hand painted photoshop pixellated porn? There's gold in them thar hills!

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:44:35 -0800

As somebody once said, "What you think you see is more important than what you see."

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:08:05 -0800

Obligitory link to the man who originally came up with this idea, and the painting that started it all here. This would be so damned easy to do nowadays with Photoshop and a few tubes of paint. I'm gonna do it. And I'll charge ten bucks less than his.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:39:50 -0800

It doesn't matter how easy it is, Civil_Disobedient, he still thought to do it before you. These are wonderful, Pretty_Generic -- thanks for sharing!!

By: jeremias

jeremias — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:45:27 -0800

I'm not so sure these are "real" physical paintings, the photoshop technique is pretty obvious to anyone who's spent time with the Filter>Texture>Patchwork commands, with a little craquelure thrown in. Why no contact information for "sales" if they were real? Just musing out loud, is all.

By: picea

picea — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:08:52 -0800

They look pretty real to me, jeremias. The texture, if you look closely, seems a bit too complex for photoshoppery. You can see the edge of the canvas on a couple too. I'm sure the artist used something like an enlarged Photoshop image as a reference though. They're kind of interesting, but if I bought one it'd be for laughs more than anything. I'd hang it on my living room wall so visitors could see it. It'd be fun to see how many people would actually ask about what it was. I'd tell them it was a landscape and let them think their dirty minds led their eyes astray.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:41:33 -0800

pretty clever, I reckon. I just got an idea on how I could use one, my mom lives in a pretty small apartment so I could buy her one and hang it in her hallway and she'd never know what it was because she couldn't see it from far back enough!

By: Scoo

Scoo — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:55:20 -0800

It would be easy to bring the pixilated image into the amazing Corel Painter and clone it to look like oils. If you are good with traditional 2D media (pastels, oils, charcoal, etc), Painter is a delight.

By: condour75

condour75 — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:17:35 -0800

depends on how big your living room is, picea -- from across the room, it would be NSFIL (not safe for inlaws). Actually i'd guess this is much more impressive in a gallery setting -- the thumbs give away the gag, and change the pacing of it. If you walked into a gallery and saw this "porn" across the room, then walked up to it and got the experience of the image de-resolving before your very eyes -- well that's the fun of it.

By: squasha

squasha — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:09:52 -0800

Ooh...I was just trying to come up with something "crafty" to make as xmas gifts for my friends...now where did I put those old copies of Japanese Playboy?